Dancing with the Moonlight Knight (session) (audio only)

A session with Peter Gabriel, composing Dancing with the Moonlight Knight in 1973 --- AUDIO ONLY

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Music

Tags:

• Genesis
• Peter
• Gabriel
• Dancing
• with
• the
• Moonlight
• Knight
• session
• 1973

[PaulHartXYZ]

THANK YOU.

"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

It's really interesting to hear Peter and Tony working this song out in the studio.

[tmbarden]

This is Gabriel. This is how he writes songs. He calls them Gabrielisms. He writes the music first and hums along. Once he has the rhythm, then he writes the lyrics. I saw him say this in an interview. This is totally Gabriel. He does this hum singing in parts of the Passion CD and especially on the song "While the Earth Sleeps."

[fontinau]

@sandro28grizz "The song was most likely written by Tony Banks, not Gabriel."

Doubt it. Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel each have their own distinctive melodic style, and this sounds like Gabriel's. (Banks tends to write longer phrases; classic four bar melodies, or various permutations thereof. Gabriel tends to build melodies out of lots of short, contrasting phrases. You can hear the two styles next to each other in "Shepherd", where each sings of them a part written in his respective style.)

[dayvenkirq]

there is something wrong with the video. it stops at 1:31

[frcjt]

Incredibly beautiful!! Where can this be found?

[tmbarden]

@sandro28grizz

This is totally Gabriel's voice, Banks never sang and did nothing but play the organ. This is Gabriel sitting at a piano and humming and there is no doubt that that is his voice towards the end of this recording. This is no way Banks.

[Progfan82]

Thanks for this treasure!. A fan from Mexico

[h8erslut]

@tmbarden Cool. I read that this was also how Marvin Gaye wrote songs, by fleshing out a melody as he played the music.

[sandro28grizz]

@tmbarden The song was most likely written by Tony Banks, not Gabriel. Banks and Mike Rutherford wrote most of the early Genesis stuff, and Steve Hackett wrote his fair share too.

[hogweed89]

@MrPapaBill I think this is really gabriel composing Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, it is confermed by a person like Mario Giammietti, don't know if you know him but he knows Genesis, he talked with one by one of them a lot of times in the years, and he wrote books about Genesis...this tape comes from a bootleg called "in the beginning"

[petergabriel99]

Beautiful document....Thanks

[wigenesis]

I love Genesis, I really do...